Job Description

Job Category: Architecture
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As a Senior Principal Architect on JPMorganChase Global Technology's Enterprise Architecture team, you will help shape, lead adoption, and operate the firm's Cloud Infrastructure domain. You will provide specialized expertise to influence the target state architecture and strategy of the domain, and work across teams to educate and build consensus to drive domain strategies. You will lead the Cloud Infrastructure domain's architecture review boards in evaluating, adjudicating, onboarding, and adopting technologies to be used by platform engineering and development teams to compose their business systems. You will advise, inform, and assist on decisions about the strategy, roadmaps, operationalization, and productization of those technologies that will be scaled and made available firmwide. Cloud infrastructure includes Storage, Compute, Networking, Virtualization, Containerization, API management, and Middleware (Messaging, Streaming, Service Mesh, Packaged Webstack, etc.).
Responsibilities

• Advise and influence portfolio owners and operate architecture review boards on developing and maintaining IT Infrastructure tools across a large enterprise, including selection, integration, and retirement; includes stakeholders of varying degrees of technical or business orientation
• Serve as a subject matter expert on IT Infrastructure at JPMC, with special emphasis on delivering technology capabilities and managing sprawl in priority areas such as Application Infrastructure, Hosting, Networking, Application Integration, Hyperconverged Infrastructure
• Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm's IT Infrastructure technology strategy and enable leaders and technology requestors from solution teams to make strategic, well-informed decisions about target state offerings and solution architecture
• Develop and maintain technology strategy and roadmaps, advise on lifecycle management, and identify opportunities for consolidation, modernization, and cost optimization
• Design scalable and secure architectures, establish standards and best practices, and ensure compliance and governance with policies
• Communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, influence technology decisions, and facilitate workshops
• Assess technology risks and recommend mitigation strategies and contingency plans
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendors, and lead proof-of-concept initiatives
• Advise on budgeting and financial impact, and identify cost savings opportunities

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Significant applied experience in cloud infrastructure and software engineering
• Deep knowledge of infrastructure domains: compute, storage, networking, cloud, virtualization, security
• Extensive practical cloud-native, on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud experience
• Practical experience delivering shared platform design, development, testing, and operational stability to large scale consumer populations
• Production service delivery expertise in one or more programming language(s)
• Proven track record in designing and managing large-scale infrastructure environments
• Ability to evaluate current and emerging technologies to recommend the best technology solutions and approaches to fulfill business goals and achieve the future state architecture

Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Expertise

• Formal training or certification on infrastructure and software engineering concepts
• Relevant Architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP Architect, ITIL, CISSP, PMP)
• Proven experience communicating and driving change across architecture disciplines (business, information, tech, data, application)
• Expertise in "Infrastructure as Code" provisioning, automation and policy enforcement frameworks (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, Open Policy Agent/OPA/Rego, etc.)
• Cell architecture and how to construct boundaries through existing capabilities like VPC Service Controls in GCP or SCP's and network controls in AWS
• Deep understanding of the niche and overlapping capabilities within the different cloud providers like cloud run vs aws lambda, or spanner vs RDS and how they can be architected appropriately for resiliency and security
• Deep understanding of network capabilities that exist within the different cloud providers and how they may be used to govern complex transit in regulated spaces, support compliance frameworks like HIPAA & PCI which includes building patterns and designs for low latency applications across multiple application portfolios

About Us: J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team: Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

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